It's significantly reduced with purrin's mod. After purrin's mod, instead of a blinding flash of sibilance, it's reduced to merely a split second spike. And it's very dependent of source. Coupled with a tube amp, the spike doesn't appear at all. It's a breathy and natural sound.

I have no idea if J$ ear pads would be able to remedy it, but I know the L3000 ear pads don't.

The L3000k pads for me... didn't tone dwn the treble at all. But that is what the Mullard Tubes are for imo. Still have yet to do the mod... proably something I'll do in Agusust when I get back in school and have some free time on my hands!

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Originally Posted by Noobmachine

I'm using the w1000x's out of a Pan Am, and after the mod there's nearly no sibilance spike, coming from a guy who is rather treble sensitive, it's quite remarkable

Indeed, I'm lucky to be rather oppisite of that. I'm... treble trained. I can take lots of it without it getting to me...

The L3000k pads for me... didn't tone dwn the treble at all. But that is what the Mullard Tubes are for imo. Still have yet to do the mod... proably something I'll do in Agusust when I get back in school and have some free time on my hands!

Talking about which, I had some extensive time with the tubes. Mullard actually increased treble the longer it was burned in. And it became overwhelming after a while, so I went back to Ediswan.

New power tube somewhat remedied the treble issue, but it's still quite too much for my ears.

I did a new mod to tone it down a notch, but it doesn't look like the W1000X would stay long with me after this. I thought it was the right one, but treble is just too much for me, and it's not even like I'm that old.

I just had the chance to demo Sennheiser HD800 and Audeze LCD-3... two of the heavy-hitters.

And out of Sennheiser's new Sennheiser HDVD800 headphone amp/DAC, no less!

HD800 has expansive soundstage and pretty good clarity and timber. I think for a stock HD800, that's a pretty impressive feat.

LCD-3 has a more closed in soundstage, much darker tonality, and the overall timber doesn't sound as natural as HD800. Probably due to the nature of the amp (I suspect it was made specifically for the HD800).